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Awareness without influence is not systems change. Empathy without accountability is not justice.
Our new guide examines strategic storytelling as a tool for creating systems change. This guide is meant for advocates, nonprofits, and macro practitioners who seek to create meaningful change.
New article at The Macro Lens: Social work was built on proximity to harm. We've spent decades rewarding distance instead. The Architecture of Amnesia asks who really belongs at the blueprint table.
The federal government just classified theology as a professional degree. Social work didn't make the list. Comment deadline is March 2. Here's what happened, why it matters, and who gets hurt most. 👇
Most MSW students get stuck with whatever practicum their program offers. But you can design your own macro placement. This guide shows how to partner with organizations you care about, arrange external supervision, and build systems-change skills through a "creative laboratory" practicum.
The epistemic regeneration spiral explains how coordinated macro practice, lived experience leadership, and shared governance can rebuild trust and restore social work’s systems-change capacity.
The Epistemic Erosion Spiral: Why Social Work Struggles to Change the Systems It Claims to Serve
Introduction: The Epistemic Erosion Spiral Social work has always carried a dual mandate: providing direct support to individuals in crisis while taking structural action against the conditions that produce harm. For decades, the profession has understood that individual suffering often reflects policy choices, institutional power, and unequal social conditions. Direct…
Library social work is often framed as crisis intervention and individual support. This piece argues that libraries are something else entirely: overlooked macro practice environments where community needs become visible, partnerships form, and systems-level change begins.
Many of the challenges social workers face are not practice failures, but policy outcomes. This piece explores how policy analysis helps practitioners move upstream to understand, challenge, and influence the systems shaping their work.
Lived experience workers are being hired faster than systems are prepared to support them. When recognition of value outpaces infrastructure, harm follows. This piece examines burnout, supervision gaps, and the unintentional exploitation built into well-meaning systems.
Deafening Silence: NASW Restructuring and the Fear of Speaking Up
This piece is an unplanned follow up, written in response to the extraordinary volume of feedback to my previous article. You may wish to read that analysis first for full context. NASW Restructuring Article Response On Friday, I published an analysis of the November NASW restructuring decision. The response revealed something I did not fully anticipate: the gap between what social workers wanted to say…
